NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Thames Star, Volume LX, Issue 16855, 4 August 1926, Page 5

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

THE NUMBER REDUCED. ALTERATION OF THE LAW. THE AGE LIMIT LOWERED. (Bv Telegraph. —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. The law governing national scholarships is altered ,in a number of particulars by the Education Amendment Bill introduced in the House of Representatives. Entrants are required to state that they have a reasonable chance of obtaining a scholarship. The maximum entry-age of candidates for junior scholarships is lowered from 14 to 13 years, and that of candidates for senior scholarship from 16 to 15 years. The proportion of scholarships of both classes is recfuced from one to each 500 public school pupils in the Dominion to one in 750. The lodging allowance of a senior scholar is raised from £35 to £SO a year. Age-limits for the tenure of the scholarships are abolished. It is also provided that in awarding scholarships the age of the candidates is to be taken into consideration and that -concessions, either by way of marking pi otherwise, as set out in the regulations, shall be made in the case of younger candidates. A special' provision is ma.de preserving the rights of children desiring to sit next year who would be ineligible if the reduced entranceages were applicable at once. The total number of scholarships to be awarded for 1927 is not to be less than threefourths of the number awarded for 1926.